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Archived Reading Challenges > 2022: 700,000 Page Challenge

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message 1001: by Iris (last edited Aug 10, 2022 04:25AM) (new)

Iris  | 35 comments Destinazione ignota by Agatha Christie Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie - 153 pages

Bàrnabo delle montagne by Dino Buzzati Bàrnabo delle montagne by Dino Buzzati - 136 pages

Total to date: 364,435 (I added message 996 page count that somehow got lost in the way)


message 1002: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
8/9/22

24 pages

Total to date: 364,459


message 1003: by Tr1sha (new)

Tr1sha | 1044 comments The Woods in Winter - Stella Gibbons

226 pages

Current group total 364 685


message 1004: by shannon (new)

shannon  Stubbs | 229 comments The Dead Mountaineer's Inn byArkady Strugatsky pg 256

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Pg 444

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Pg567

The Psychopathy of Everday Life by Sigmund Freud
Pg 255

Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Pg276

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Pg 224

Group total 366,707


message 1005: by Gilbert (new)

Gilbert Complete Short Stories Editors and Writers by Anthony Trollope Complete Short Stories Editors and Writers by Anthony Trollope
251 pages

Total to date: 364,033 pgs


message 1006: by Darsha (new)

Darsha Squartsoff Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -432
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 107
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber- 10

Group total= 367,256


message 1007: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Our total is now:

367 507 pages


message 1008: by Pharmacdon (new)

Pharmacdon | 45 comments Guard of Honor by James Cozzens 614 pages

Total 368,121 pages


message 1009: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

218 pages

Total to date: 368 339


message 1010: by Pharmacdon (new)

Pharmacdon | 45 comments The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 180 pages

Total Pages 368,519


message 1011: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments Bodies in a Bookshop by R.T. Campbell
Bodies in a Bookshop by R.T. Campbell
8/11/22

160 pages

Total to date: 368,679


message 1012: by Tabitha (new)

Tabitha  Gallicano Rosemarie wrote: "Tabitha, all classics read in 2022 count for the challenge." Ah, perfecto. Thank you. I think thats it for me so far this year then.


message 1013: by Pharmacdon (new)

Pharmacdon | 45 comments Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 274 pages

Total pages: 368,953


message 1014: by John (new)

John R The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

578 pages - 11/08/22

Total to Date : 369,531


message 1015: by Tr1sha (new)

Tr1sha | 1044 comments Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse

240 pages

Current group total 369 771


message 1016: by Valerie (last edited Aug 13, 2022 02:07AM) (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 40 comments La Chanson de Roland

275 pages

Current group total: 370,046


message 1017: by Tr1sha (new)

Tr1sha | 1044 comments Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

116 pages

Current group total 370 162


message 1018: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Nordenholt's Million by J.J. Connington
Nordenholt's Million by J.J. Connington
260 pages

Total to date: 370 422


message 1019: by Andressa (new)

Andressa Zerbinatti (azerbinatti) | 1 comments Humilhados e Ofendidos
Fyodor Dostoevsky

360 pages

Total to date: 370 782


message 1020: by Karen (new)

Karen | 87 comments These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls
Wilder


289 pages

Total to date: 371,071


message 1021: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3682 comments Mod
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

706 pages

Group total: 371,777 pages


message 1022: by Monica (new)

Monica Doctor Zhivago
471 pages

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
192 pages

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
324 pages

Life and Fate
864 pages

The Power of the Dog
306 pages

Group total: 373,934 pages


message 1023: by Dave (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

100 pages

374,034


message 1024: by Tony (new)

Tony | 53 comments The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Excellent translation from Richard Howard.

507 pages

374,541


message 1025: by Annette (new)

Annette | 241 comments Adding what I've read this year so far:

Aesop's Fables 145 pages
All-of-a-Kind Family 188 pages
Anatole 40 pages
Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender 32 pages
Camilla 108 pages
Castle Rackrent 87 pages
The Cherry Orchard 96 pages
The Children of Green Knowe 192 pages
Door in the Wall & Other Stories HG Wells 148 pages
Ensouled Violin 48 pages
Five Children and It 237 pages
Horseman in the Sky 25 pages
House of Mirth 351 pages
how the poor die Orwell 26 pages
The Idiot 667 pages
J’Accuse 15 pages
Kidnapped 136 pages
Last Question 9 pages
Monkey’s Paw 32 pages
The Moomins & the Great Flood 52 pages
Mother Carey’s Chickens 384 pages
Murder at the Vicarage 268 pages
Oedipus Rex 75 pages
Polish Fairy Tales 152 pages
Princess and the Goblin 241pages
Prometheus Bound 30 pages
Rain from Trembling of a Leaf 64 pages
Ragged Dick 120 pages
The Raven 4 pages
Razor's Edge 314 pages
The Saturdays 177 pages
Sea Wolf 288 pages
Solaris 204 pages
To Sir, With Love 189 pages
A Town Like Alice 359 pages
Uncle Vanya 116 pages
Wasteland 24 pages
Wonder Clock 318 pages
Youth by Conrad 30 pages

For my total of 5991 pages

Group Total: 380,532


message 1026: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments The Wild Swans At Coole by W.B. Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by W.B. Yeats
8/16/22

56 pages

Poetry by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Poetry by Arthur Quiller-Couch
8/15/22

31 pages

Total to date: 380,619


message 1027: by shannon (new)

shannon  Stubbs | 229 comments I just read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
44pages
380,663


message 1028: by Michelle (new)

Michelle | 170 comments The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
description
Published 1922
p. 247

Hiroshima by John Hersey
description
Originally published 1946
p. 100*

*This is where the original text from 1946 ends in my edition. The rest of the edition was added in the 80s

my total: 347

Group: 381,010


message 1029: by Dave (last edited Aug 17, 2022 04:14PM) (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments Middlemarch by George Eliot

904 pages

Total to date; 381,914


message 1030: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
256 pages

Total to date: 382 170


message 1031: by Dave (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

421 pages

Total to date; 382,591


message 1032: by Pharmacdon (new)

Pharmacdon | 45 comments His Family by Ernest Poole, 336 pages

Total pages: 382,927


message 1033: by Shaina (new)

Shaina | 536 comments Murder Abroad by E.R. Punshon - 251 pgs
Murder Abroad (The Bobby Owen Mysteries, #13) by E.R. Punshon

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 195 pgs (my hadcover edition is not on GR)

Total to Date: 383,373 pgs


message 1034: by Gilbert (new)

Gilbert Where Angels Fear to Tread  by E.M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
117 pages

Total to date: 383,490


message 1035: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3682 comments Mod
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1) by Michael Bond

159 pages

Group total: 383,649 pages


message 1036: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
8/17/22

256 pages

Total to date: 383,905


message 1037: by Tr1sha (new)

Tr1sha | 1044 comments The Red House Mystery - A.A. Milne

229 pages

Current group total 384 134


message 1038: by John (new)

John R On Strike Against the Nazis by Steve Cushion
On Strike Against the Nazis by Steve Cushion

92 pages - 17/08/22

Total to Date : 384,226


message 1040: by Jillian (new)

Jillian Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier 8/14/2022

pages 320

Total to date: 384,944


message 1041: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 40 comments Italo Calvino - The Distance of the Moon

56 pages

Total to date: 384,680


message 1042: by Tim (new)

Tim | 276 comments Valerie wrote: "Italo Calvino - The Distance of the Moon

56 pages

Total to date: 384,680"


Might want to check your page figure. Your total number is less than the previous total amount. Thanks, Tim


message 1043: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (last edited Aug 19, 2022 09:35AM) (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Thanks for catching that, Tim. It looks like Valerie and Jillian were posting at the exact same time!

Our new group total is 385 000 pages!


message 1044: by Gilbert (new)

Gilbert Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9) by Émile Zola Nana by Émile Zola
Pages: 459

Group total pages: 385,459


message 1045: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments Knulp by Hermann Hesse
Knulp by Hermann Hesse
8/19/22

96 pages

Total to date: 385,555


message 1047: by Audrey (new)

Audrey (niceyackerman) | 73 comments Pippi Longstocking Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) by Astrid Lindgren
July 10
160 pp

Running total: 387,271


message 1048: by Mike (new)

Mike Fowler (mlfowler) | 253 comments Layli and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi
Layli and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi

320 pages - Review

Running total: 387,591


message 1049: by Dave (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursala K. le Guin.

304 pages

387,895


message 1050: by Dave (last edited Aug 20, 2022 05:40PM) (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments Metamorphoses by Ovid

723 pages

Total to date; 388,618


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